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Evening Newscast 07-06-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The over 1400 acre Observation Fire fire burning 10 miles southwest of Hamilton is now 30 percent contained, up from 20 percent yesterday afternoon.

A 25-year-old Missoula man has been charged with deliberate homicide in the suffocation death of a 5-month-old Missoula boy.

A federal appeals court has ordered the release of the founder of a Montana club for the ultra-rich who has spent the last 14 months in jail for contempt of court.

A 48-year-old man from Hayden, Idaho was killed in a rollover crash in southwestern Montana.

A manufacturer of copper and zinc products in East Helena has agreed to limit its use of a well that taps into lead- and arsenic-contaminated water beneath a Superfund site.

Montana trappers say they’ll aggressively fight a ballot initiative to end commercial and recreational trapping on all of Montana’s public lands.

Montana is using a new system to send missing persons alerts that should allow alerts to go out more quickly through more formats, target specific areas of the state, and notify people when alerts have been cancelled.

Today, Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke introduced the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016 into the U.S. House of Representatives.

Montana Department of Justice officials say 2,818 Volkswagen and Audi owners in the state will benefit from a legal settlement over Volkswagen's rigged emissions tests.

A 58-year-old man was killed and his 6-year-old grandson was injured when a car struck the man's bicycle near Park City, Montana.

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